History of commands?

Is there any way to find which commands have been executed between 2 specific dates (like 2 to 3 months period)?

I can use the history command, but I have powered the system on/off.

Is this possible? And how?

joe

Posted 2009-08-19T14:54:57.717

Reputation: 11 615

What commands are you talking about? What is the history command? The one in Bash doesn't care whether you've powered anything on or off. – innaM – 2009-08-19T15:13:59.353

what ever commands i executed on terminals – joe – 2009-08-19T17:28:01.593

History command -http://linux.about.com/od/commands/l/blcmdln_history.htm

– joe – 2009-08-19T17:28:58.910

Are you using Bash? – innaM – 2009-08-19T19:11:25.893

Answers

Not by default. You should install the psacct (Process Accounting) utilities to get this functionality.

sudo apt-get install acct

The ubuntu package turns on process accounting as part of the install. It provides the following commands:

ac - print statistics about users’ connect time
lastcomm - print out information about previously executed commands.
sa - summarizes accounting information
accton - turns process accounting on or off

user4358

Posted 2009-08-19T14:54:57.717

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No, not possible with the default install. If you care about the next 2 - 3 months, it is possible to set something up to track this, but not for the prior 2-3 months.

ChrisInEdmonton

Posted 2009-08-19T14:54:57.717

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is there any other way to track on now ? – joe – 2009-08-19T15:01:41.093